Footnote to Taft-Hartley.

LABOR laws; LABOR unions; INDUSTRIAL relations; UNITED States legislators; COLLECTIVE bargaining; BUSINESS negotiation; TEXTILE industry

Four years ago, when the Taft-Hartley act became law, labor leaders predicted that it would "destroy labor unions, degrade living standards and cripple basic rights." Until the recent appearance of a preliminary report by the majority of the Senate Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations, headed by Senator James B. Murray, little substantial confirmation of this prediction had been made public. The report, however, presents some extremely provocative information on the effect of Taft-Hartley and exposes the "concerted opposition to union organization and collective bargaining in the Southern textile industry.